Research Paper Calendar ... the rest of the way ...
- 2/26 - 2/27 ... Work on Rough Drafts (I will be out for a teacher workshop on 2/21)
- 2/28 ... Rough Draft DUE / Submit an electronic copy of your Rough Draft (QUIZ)
- 3/1 ... Peer Editing Activities (DAILY)
- 3/2 - 3/8 ... Work on your Final Draft (Class in lab A202 on 3/6 and 3/7 to begin printing Final Drafts)
- 3/8 ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE (Classes will meet in Library Lab A202 to print on 3/7) / Students MUST turn in a printed copy AND submit or share an online copy as well (2x MAJOR GRADE FOR FINAL DRAFT)
Info on Parenthetical Citations to review ...
http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-cite-a-parenthetical-citations-mla/
https://www.ccis.edu/~/media/Files/Academic%20Resources/Writing%20Center/mla_examples.pdf
You can find MLA sample argument papers here to ensure you are on the right track with yours - or see me and we can go over what you have: MLA Sample Argument Papers
You may also want to look at the standard outline for an argument paper as you consider how to structure your paper: Argument Paper - Sample Outline
WORKS CITED INFO ... ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE IN WORD ONLINE, BE SURE TO SHARE IT WITH ME - richard.davis@sfisd.org
- Works Cited Page
- 8 QUICK RULES FOR YOUR WC PAGE
- Start a new page for your Works Cited list (e.g., if your paper is 4 pages long, start your Works Cited list on page 5).
- Center the title, Works Cited, at the top of the page and do not bold or underline it. Use 12 point Times New Roman in both the title and the entries.
- Double-space the list.
- Start the first line of each citation at the left margin; indent each subsequent line five spaces (also known as a "hanging indent").
- Put your list in alphabetical order. Alphabetize the list by the first word in the citation. In most cases, the first word will be the author’s last name. Where the author is unknown, alphabetize by the first word in the title, ignoring the words a, an, the.
- For each author, give the last name followed by a comma and the first name followed by a period.
- Italicize the titles of full works: books, audiovisual material,websites.
- Do not italicize titles of parts of works, such as: articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals / essays, poems, short stories or chapter titles from a book / chapters or sections of an Internet document. Instead, use quotation marks.
- Sample of what a Works Cited page should look like - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
- The information you need for each citation is at the end of each source from the Gale database. You can copy and paste the MLA Citation from there - but you may have to adjust the formatting (size, font, etc.) to make sure it is within MLA rules.
ARGUMENT THESIS STATEMENT INFO ...
- As you work, it is time to begin considering what your thesis statement will be. Read over the following website if you need some assistance developing your thesis statement.
